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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Geaux Teacher!: REMEMBER PAUL VALLAS?

Geaux Teacher!: REMEMBER PAUL VALLAS?:


REMEMBER PAUL VALLAS?

Remember Paul Vallas? - he's the guy who followed up the destruction of our schools by Katrina with further destruction of the entire public school system with hurrican Reform! Well he has finished up with Chile (or was thrown out) and is now collecting a cool million $ to destroy Connecticut schools. Check out what he left in Chile!!!! Are we getting the big picture here yet? 


More than 10,000 High School Chilean Students March for 'Free Education' | Common Dreams


http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/21-1 

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http://pureparents.org/?p=19376 

Father of High-Stakes Testing, Paul Vallas, now opposes them

Reuters reports that former Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Paul Vallas thinks end-of-year assessments are “not useful” and that it’s “a big mistake” to use them for high-stakes purposes.

Well, he needs to apologize to about 125,000 Chicago Public School students who have been flunked because of the high-stakes testing policy he started in 1996 as CPS CEO. And maybe his “education consulting firm” can